This Thursday, Dinos Chapman brings his Luftbobler audio/visual show to the UK for the first time. You should definitely go right ahead and put that date in your Gmail calendar right now, because the whole thing is going to be pretty exciting. Basically, it features a triptych of screens that are going to be showing a series of short films, all set to searing electronic compositions, which are going to be played live. Essentially, it's a sort of 4D audio-visual experience that will exhilirate, enthral and immerse you.To celebrate, Dinos has given us the exclusive first look at the director's cut of his debut music video for "Luv2H8". Directed by Anoushka Seigler and Kamil Dymek, the video sees Dinos in a giant bunny outfit, waving a rifle about. Obviously. We had a chat with Dinos to find out what was going on.DINOS CHAPMAN LUV2H8 from thevinylfactory on Vimeo.Noisey: What was the idea behind it?
Dinos Chapman: There's no grand idea, apart from allowing a kind of disconnected narrative to form between the image, sound and audience's imagination. They supply the narrative. I just supply the parts.Did any passers by see you in a bunny outfit with a rifle when you were filming?Yes, but the locals are more than familiar with a giant white manky rabbit doing stupid things in my orchard by now. Although shouting at a giant white rabbit may be a sign of insanity on their parts, we all know giant white rabbits don't exist.I previously read that you lost over ten years of material before the release of Luftbobler. How did that happen?Fat fingers, eating kebabs while working, small greasy buttons, lack of sleep and stupidity - a combination of all the above will do it.Is it exciting getting out of relatively traditional art spaces and taking a project like Luftbobler to huge nightclubs?Exciting and terrifying in equal parts, but then you're not really alive unless you're excited and terrified, are you?The UK debut is happening at Fabric, do you remember your first visit? Are you a big clubber?This will be my first visit. And I'm a huge clubber, but the only club I belong to is the baby seal clubbing club.I've really enjoyed your new EP but also found it slightly terrifying. What would you say is the ideal situation in which to listen to it?All alone, at midnight, in a creaky cottage, in the middle of a dark forest, in the middle of a thunderstorm, with the telephone broken down and a werewolf scratching at the front door.How important do you think it is to have various outlets of creativity?If you're not really good at one thing, you should be quite good at lots of things. I like to describe myself as a polymath but I suspect I'm more like a jack of all trades.
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Dinos Chapman: There's no grand idea, apart from allowing a kind of disconnected narrative to form between the image, sound and audience's imagination. They supply the narrative. I just supply the parts.Did any passers by see you in a bunny outfit with a rifle when you were filming?Yes, but the locals are more than familiar with a giant white manky rabbit doing stupid things in my orchard by now. Although shouting at a giant white rabbit may be a sign of insanity on their parts, we all know giant white rabbits don't exist.I previously read that you lost over ten years of material before the release of Luftbobler. How did that happen?Fat fingers, eating kebabs while working, small greasy buttons, lack of sleep and stupidity - a combination of all the above will do it.Is it exciting getting out of relatively traditional art spaces and taking a project like Luftbobler to huge nightclubs?Exciting and terrifying in equal parts, but then you're not really alive unless you're excited and terrified, are you?
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